[vbox-dev] Shared folder automount only mounts volumes as root on Linux

Sérgio Basto sergio at serjux.com
Wed Jan 13 10:16:30 GMT 2021


Hi,

On Tue, 2021-01-12 at 16:25 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> Has anyone else noted that VB 6.1.16 automounts shared folders with
> root 
> permissions? This problem is noted with 5.10 kernels on host and
> guest
> 
> In addition, a manual mount from the guest specifying the UID and GID
> still ends 
> up with root permissions.

Do you use in kernel module or vboxsf from virtualbox sources ?

I have one issue with code from virtualbox sources on Centos 7,
automount on boot vm didn't work ... 

> As far as I remember, the correct permissions were present with VB
> 6.1.14 and 
> older kernels.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Larry
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Sérgio M. B.




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